Skelos expects changes to New York gun law

5:23 AM,
Mar. 5, 2013

Written by

Joseph Spector
Albany Bureau Chief

Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos said Monday that he expects significant changes to the gun-control law passed in January, specifically a provision that lowers the number of bullets in a magazine from 10 to seven.

Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, D-Manhattan, and Gov. Andrew Cuomo have indicated that the law passed Jan. 15 might face just some minor amendments. Skelos, the Republican from Nassau County, said he would hope there would be more substantial changes.

"I think they are going to be more than technical," Skelos told reporters of the changes. "I think we're going to look at the ...